Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC in Portland

Ian Wright wrote:

> Hi Jon,
>
> If you take just one more step and hook up a real network you will
> take out
> one stage of software downloads (at least).

I have a "Real Network", thin wire Ethernet, using TCP/IP protocol.

> Before I hooked mine up I had to
> download to the Windoze98 machine (which is where I had my only modem)
> and
> then transfer to CD and walk up 2 floors to post the CD in one of my
> Linux
> machines. With the simple network I could access the net from the
> windoze
> machine and save files directly to one of the Linux machines using
> 'Network
> Neighbourhood' which is already a part of windoze. Now I have added in
>
> WinProxy and re-configured the net a bit, I can access the web
> directly from
> any of the machines on my network and save files to that or any other
> machine in the house!

I could do this, but it is just easier to do big downloads while I'm
reading and replying to
my email, which can all go on at the same time. Someday, I will
probably pop for
a cable modem or one of the xDSL technologies, when the price comes
down.
Right now, what I have is excellent, and the use of an FTP daemon is
just fine.
I have secured my windows PC so that it will not accept any connects
unless I
really want them to be accepted. I have too much important stuff
(business records,
circuit and PCB designs of all hardware I've ever designed, most of the
programs
I've ever written, etc., so there are security issues as well as just
the hassle of
reloading all that from backup).

> With a couple of linux machines on the network it is perfectly
> feasible to
> drive EMC on one machine, say in the workshop, from another in a quiet
> warm
> place! The only prerequisite seems to be that the two machines need to
> be
> running the same release of linux - I don't know why as, in theory one
> is
> only acting as a terminal for the other, but trying to run EMC on the
> RH5.2
> machine from the Mandrake7 machine just doesn't work and I get errors
> saying
> that 'steppermod.o' or 'freqmod.o' can't be run.

I believe somebody (was it Ray Henry) ran EMC from a laptop with
Windows, just to prove
it could be done.

>
> I haven't found any way to run linux programs from the windoze machine
> yet -
> presumably with some form of X-server program on the windoze machine
> it
> would be possible as, in theory at least, UMSDOS should allow you to
> run
> DOS-based programs on the linux machines - I just haven't tried these
> yet.

Yes, I've done a little of this at work, using eXceed (a commercial
product). I have run
a little bit of DOS stuff under Linux.

Jon